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Glad you’re getting into the piece. It wasn’t the writer’s intention, but it lays out the basis for Vela’s appeal.

Thanks for the link with all the raunchy side ads! NOT! :-)

From what I've read so far, the author is painting Hensley as the Loose Cannon in this whole deal. Right, wrong, effective or not....the article is more about his impact on the whole situation going down in that area.

It appears they brought him in specifically to deal with their lack of containing insurgency activity in their area. The surge was yet to arrive in full force, but was in the works. When leaders started dealing (paying) with local sheiks to minimize US casualties, they no longer needed Hensley and his teams' kills.

The May 11 incident that Evan Vela was involved with had already happened. Too late to take that back. Hensley wasn't about to change his mission once it was assigned and he took it to "heart".

Still reading.